by Peter Speetjens | 18/10/2019 | Art & Culture, Middle East
Youssef Nabil left Egypt in 2003, yet really never left. With his hand-painted photographs and videos he created his own personal iconography of the Egypt he loved, the Egypt that once was and he wishes to preserve. Inspired by cinema, it is an imaginary Egypt, yet...
by Peter Speetjens | 17/10/2019 | Art & Culture
Winner of the 2016 Hasselblad Masters Awards, 24-year-old Slovakian Evelyn Bencicova divides her time between Vienna and Berlin and found a fine balance between aesthetic and conceptual. The secret? It is all about “fiction based on truth”. Evelyn, you were born in...
by Peter Speetjens | 18/07/2019 | Art & Culture
All is not what it seems in the work of Petros Chrisostomou. The British artist meticulously sculpts strangely familiar miniature worlds, only to blow them out of proportion again with the click of a camera. Petros, you are quite the global citizen: born in London, of...
by Peter Speetjens | 18/04/2019 | Art & Culture
Arnout van Albada’s studio is his kitchen. The Dutch artist loves his food and loves to paint anything from raw vegetables and Spanish hams to sardines and cream cakes. Altough food is regarded a “vanity of vanities” Van Albada mainly aims to convey the monumental...
by Peter Speetjens | 18/07/2018 | Art & Culture, Middle East
Hassan Hajjaj gives you the Orient In all its warmth and colors. Yet his is not a nostalgic Orient that stood still in time. No, his orient has fully come to grips with modernity. His does not fear or resent it, but embraced and enriched it. Hassan talks about...
by Peter Speetjens | 21/02/2018 | Art & Culture
Born in South Africa, Dean Bradshaw grew up in Australia where he spent much of HIS childhood catching lizards and other reptiles. Having obtained a degree in zoology, he worked as a field biologist before moving to California to become a full-time photographer known...
